With pencils, paper, and slide rules, they transformed airplane, rocket. The women, who served as human computers during the early years of NASA, were responsible for computing the flight trajectories that would send astronauts into space and back again. Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures tells the incredible real-life account of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Dardenwho, in a time when black women faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles, went to work as calculators at NASA. This is remedied with the handy time line of short profiles in the back matter. Hidden Figures, this inspirational true story of five African-American women’s fight for space in a field that was ruled by men. In this picture book take, the text, at times, reads a bit clinical and it's occasionally difficult to distinguish one woman's characteristics from another's while reading. The book tells the story of the Langley Research. Despite the challenges these women faced, they persisted, worked hard, and put a man on the moon. Hidden Figures, (movie) Theodor Melfi (director), Fox 2000 Pictures, 2016, 127 min. Shetterly expertly puts these women's achievements in their historical context: segregation, blatant sexism and racism in the workplace, the civil rights movement, and the space race. Holts book, Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, focuses on women at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). K-Gr 2-Shetterly introduces young readers to the inspirational and groundbreaking stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, and their once-hidden contributions to science, aeronautics, and space exploration.
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